{"id":6872,"date":"2024-01-06T00:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T07:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2024-01-06T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T07:48:24","slug":"twenty-twenty-four-day-five-plan-for-success-but-for-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/06\/twenty-twenty-four-day-five-plan-for-success-but-for-art\/","title":{"rendered":"[twenty twenty four day five]: plan for success, but for art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-06-at-2.12.21-AM-600x474.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6873\" width=\"718\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-06-at-2.12.21-AM-600x474.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-06-at-2.12.21-AM-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-06-at-2.12.21-AM-768x606.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-06-at-2.12.21-AM-1536x1213.png 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-06-at-2.12.21-AM-640x505.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-06-at-2.12.21-AM.png 1696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the productivity tools I use is a technique called &#8220;plan for success.&#8221; I mostly use it for todo lists, and for that topic it&#8217;s worth a blog post of its own, but, briefly, when taking on a task, I like to start off with a &#8220;plan for success&#8221; sheet where I list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What the project is (e.g, going to Dragon Con)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where I currently am on the project (e.g, about to leave, just arrived)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What the context of the next work block is (the next 4-5 days, or the next month)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What success would look like (e.g., attend all my panels, meet all my friends, hit the dealer&#8217;s room)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Once I have that, I start listing todo items, then categorizing them into the four Stephen Covey quadrants &#8211; Urgent and Important, Not Urgent yet Important, Urgent yet Unimportant, and Not Urgent and Not Important. Making sure that the &#8220;Not Urgent yet Important&#8221; stuff gets done is the hardest part, so I usually tranche the TODOs into &#8220;do immediately, do today, do before I leave&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the whole &#8220;plan for success&#8221; idea came from an artist &#8211; I don&#8217;t remember who &#8211; talking about the difference between professionals and amateurs. An amateur may produce great art, they said, but on accident, even if they&#8217;re skilled, because they don&#8217;t know how they&#8217;re doing what they&#8217;re doing. A professional, on the other hand, makes a plan to ensure that their art piece succeeds. They  may not always succeed at it &#8211; plenty of professional artists have to start pieces over &#8211; but they don&#8217;t paint themselves into a metaphorical corner as much because they&#8217;ve taken steps to ensure the piece comes out well &#8211; for example, by getting reference art, doing perspective or construction lines, or practice drawings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder if this idea also works for learning art? Let&#8217;s find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured: My drawing desk and books on drawing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the productivity tools I use is a technique called &#8220;plan for success.&#8221; I mostly use it for todo lists, and for that topic it&#8217;s worth a blog post&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,227],"tags":[15,274,299],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artworks","category-sketchworks","tag-artworks","tag-blogging-every-day","tag-plan-for-success","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6874,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions\/6874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}